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Honest plans.
Real data ownership.
No long-term contracts.

50% off your plan, for life — the first 100 founding shops. Solo $50.00, Shop $75.00, Shop Plus $125.00, locked for as long as you stay subscribed. 14-day free trial, no card required. Every plan includes full data ownership, and your data stays with you regardless.

You own your data — three layers of it · No long-term contracts · Cancel anytime — keep everything either way
How it works right now
STEP 1 · NOW

Free to start

The full feature set, no credit card. We onboard every new shop personally, so you are running rather than reading docs.

STEP 2 · FOUNDING SHOPS

Lock lifetime founding terms

The earliest shops lock a founding rate — for as long as you run your shop on Daedalus. The earlier you join, the better it gets.

STEP 3 · LATER

Standard plans

Simple monthly tiers by shop size — every price is listed right here. Solo $99.99, Shop $149.99, Shop Plus $249.99. No hard sell, no long-term contract, and founding shops keep half off for life.

No long-term contracts, ever. Your data stays yours at every step.

Founding pricing: 50% off whichever plan you pick — and it stays half off for as long as you stay subscribed, including when you move up a plan. 14-day free trial, no card required. Cancel anytime.
Solo
Mobile mechanics and one-bay shops.
$99.99 $50.00/mo
Founding rate — locked while subscribed
  • 1 user
  • Customers, vehicles, repair orders
  • Estimates and invoices
  • Customer portal
  • Maintenance reminders
  • AI write-up assist
  • Accounting export (QuickBooks / Xero)
  • Data ownership
  • Cloud-managed — export everything anytime
  • Nightly encrypted backup to your own bucket
  • Support
  • Email support
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Shop
The right pick for most independent shops.
$149.99 $75.00/mo
Founding rate — locked while subscribed
  • Up to 5 users
  • Everything in Solo, plus:
  • Team roles and permissions
  • Bay and dispatch calendar
  • Customer communications timeline
  • Review request links
  • AI comms summary
  • Accounting export (QuickBooks / Xero)
  • Data ownership
  • Cloud-managed + nightly encrypted backup to your own bucket
  • Support
  • Priority email support
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Shop Plus
Larger shops that need more control and integrations.
$249.99 $125.00/mo
Founding rate — locked while subscribed
  • Unlimited users
  • Everything in Shop, plus:
  • Accounting export (QuickBooks / Xero)
  • Outbound webhooks
  • 2FA enforcement for staff
  • Data ownership
  • All of the above + local mirror on your own hardware
  • Support
  • Priority support + dedicated onboarding
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Every plan includes AI: write-ups drafted from a voice note, rewritten in language the customer follows, and likely causes ranked from the codes on the car — with every change reviewed by you before it lands. See how it works →

For most shops, a month of Daedalus costs about one billed hour. Moving in is free: no setup fee, no data-migration charge, and no contract to sign.

Your monthly plan covers the platform, and AI is included on every plan — no credit meter, no per-action charge, nothing extra on the bill. An AI action is writing up a repair order from a voice note, summarising a job, or explaining a line to a customer. We show your running total in Settings → Subscription so you can always see what you have used. Ordinary shop use is covered; the only limit is runaway automation, and we would talk to you long before that mattered. Texting is pass-through: Twilio bills your own account directly and we don't mark it up.

Founding Customer program A handful of spots

The first shops to sign up get Founding Customer status. Founding shops get founding terms — meaningfully better than anything we'll offer once we open up, and held for as long as you stay with us — plus onboarding directly with the team that builds it, a permanent place on our About page, and a standing line into product decisions for as long as Daedalus exists. In return we ask for honest feedback and the right to use your shop's name once we're proud of the work. The full founding terms are written down — nothing is negotiated behind a curtain. Apply →

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What's in each plan

The honest version of what you get. Upgrade or downgrade anytime — your data stays exactly where it is.

Feature Solo Shop Shop Plus
Core
Customers, vehicles, repair orders ✓✓✓
Estimates and invoices ✓✓✓
Customer portal ✓✓✓
Maintenance reminders ✓✓✓
AI write-up assist ✓✓✓
User seats 15∞
Shop operations
Team roles and permissions ✓✓
Bay and dispatch calendar ✓✓✓
Customer communications timeline ✓✓✓
Review request links ✓✓✓
AI comms summary ✓✓✓
Integrations + security
Accounting export (QuickBooks / Xero) ✓✓✓
Outbound webhooks ✓✓
2FA enforcement for staff ✓✓✓
Data ownership
Export everything (CSV / JSON) anytime✓✓✓
Nightly encrypted backup to your bucket✓✓✓
Local mirror on your own hardware ✓
Support
Email support ✓✓✓
Priority support ✓✓
Dedicated onboarding ✓
FAQ

Things shop owners ask first

How much does it cost?
Right now, 50% off for the first 100 founding shops — Solo $50.00, Shop $75.00, Shop Plus $125.00. Locked for as long as you stay subscribed, and it follows you if you move up a plan. After the founding window fills: Solo $99.99 (1 user), Shop $149.99 (up to 5), Shop Plus $249.99 (unlimited). Every plan includes a generous monthly AI allowance. 14-day free trial, no card required.

The one condition on "for life": keep the subscription active. The rate holds for as long as your shop stays subscribed — through every plan change and every price rise we ever announce. If the subscription lapses or you cancel, the founding rate ends with it and coming back is at whatever the price is then.
What does "you own your data" actually mean?
Three real things: (1) you can export everything to JSON or CSV at any time from the Privacy page — no export fee, no notice period; (2) on Shop and Shop Plus, your full shop database is backed up every night to your own cloud storage bucket using a key only you hold — if our cloud disappeared tomorrow you'd still have last night's snapshot in your own account; (3) on Shop Plus, the local mirror keeps a read-only replica of your shop running on your own hardware. Your data is yours on day one and stays that way.
How do I start?
Sign up and you're in — a live shop with a 14-day free trial, no card required. Set it up yourself in minutes; we're a message away if you get stuck. The first 100 shops lock half off their plan for as long as they stay subscribed.
Can I change plans later?
Yes, both directions, anytime. Upgrade is instant; downgrade takes effect at the start of your next billing cycle. Your data stays exactly where it is.

One thing worth knowing: if you downgrade to a plan with fewer users than you currently have logging in, you keep everyone for 7 days — with the date and the count shown in Settings — and then the most recently added logins are switched off. Never the owner, nothing deleted, and one click in Team turns anyone back on once you have the seat. Technicians on your roster aren't affected: they don't log in, so they don't use a seat, and you can have as many as you like on any plan.
What about taxes, payment processing, SMS fees?
The plan price is software-only, and taxes are extra. Text messaging is bring-your-own: Twilio bills you directly at their rates on your own account, and we don't mark that up by a cent. Online card payments are live — they switch on for your shop once you connect Stripe in Settings, which is ordinary onboarding. They run through a Stripe account you own and settle straight to your bank, and on those we charge 3.4% + 30¢ per transaction. Most of that is Stripe's own processing cost; roughly half a percent is ours. Pay-over-time methods (Affirm, Klarna, Afterpay) cost more to process, so they carry a higher rate — every rate is itemized in Settings → Payments before you turn the feature on. Payments you take in person or in cash and record yourself are free.
How is this different from the legacy shop software?
Two things stand out: you own your data on every plan (export to CSV or JSON anytime, no fee, no waiting), and honest terms — no setup fees, no per-tech surcharges, no multi-year contracts.
What happens if I cancel?
On the last day of your billing period your account becomes read-only. You have 90 days to log in, export everything, and move to wherever you're going next. After 90 days the account is fully purged from our cloud. If you were on Layer 1 or Layer 2, your bucket snapshots and local mirror are still in your possession — we can't touch them.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes — within 7 days of your first payment, no questions asked. If Daedalus doesn't fit your shop, email [email protected] and we'll refund that payment in full and help you export.
Who built this, and why should I trust you?
Read the About page for the human side. Short version: a small team with a real automotive background, building Daedalus because the existing options hold your data hostage and nickel-and-dime independent shops. We're transparent about being early; the Founding Customer program is honest about being a partnership, growing pains and all.

Ready to get started?

Create your shop and you're in — 14 days free, no card, and founding terms locked for as long as you stay subscribed, in writing. Set up takes minutes, and we're one email away if you'd rather we move your customers and vehicles in for you.

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